Letters to the editor for Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Tuesday

Oct 30, 2012 at 3:35 PM

To state that RJ Smith "was appointed to support (Ed) Diana" (Ken Hall Oct. 28) and has not been clear on the issue of Valley View nursing home is willful ignorance that simply follows an unchallenged narrative.

To state that RJ Smith "was appointed to support (Ed) Diana" (Ken Hall Oct. 28) and has not been clear on the issue of Valley View nursing home is willful ignorance that simply follows an unchallenged narrative.

RJ is the only legislator with proven capability who is genuinely investigating ways to reduce Valley View's costs in an honest effort to keep it county-owned, without the need for subsidies funded by ever increasing taxes. The mere fact that he is not insistent on keeping it in county hands under any circumstance is not evidence that "it is harder to pin him down," but is an example of how seriously he takes his fiduciary responsibility.

Without consideration of its sale as a possibility, there is absolutely no incentive to reduce Valley View's operating costs, and the only alternative to keeping it funded is to raise taxes. And just about everyone will say we are taxed enough already.

There is immense value in such an individual who offers himself to public service at this point in his life. All the while his unrivaled character is impugned and his accomplishments disparaged for the simple but powerful end result of political victory by opposition.

Michael Aiello Jr.

Montgomery

Has the projected cost of Obamacare accounted for the fallout from extensive STDs fostered by this campaign's manufactured "war on women"? Think about it.

On its face, this maniacal mantra smacks of a counterintuitive, convoluted and perverse objective. Case in point: Sandra Flock, whose parents must be oh so proud, commands that taxpayers provide Flock with her preferred method of unprotected sex while Mayor Bloomberg dictates how much soda we can drink under the premise that too much is no good. Wow.

If I were a registered Democrat, I think that I might feel a sense of guilt by association. A lot of liberal voters are off the rail, here. Perhaps, amidst our ever-debasing society, the progressive base is suffering from the advanced, delirious stages of ... neurosyphilis?